坐視不理
zuò​shì​bù​lǐ

to sit by and watch

  • created sense approved 坐视不理/坐視不理 · zuò​shì​bù​lǐ · to sit by and watch — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    坐视不理 / 坐視不理

    zuò​shì​bù​lǐ

    to sit by and watch

    to sit and watch while something happens without doing anything to help or intervene

    坐视 (literal) → 坐视/坐視 · zuò​shì · to sit by and watch 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 理 (literal) → 理 · lǐ · to pay attention to

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense